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Last week the gold watch (brought to the U.S. from Russia 27 years ago by Novelist Wouk's grandfather) was shut and resting in the desk drawer. Novelist Wouk was taking his first vacation in nearly a decade from the job of writing - "the loneliest job in the world...
One Sunday morning a musical press-agent and thwarted opera singer named Alix Williamson was indulging her favorite whim: lolling in her bathtub, lazily singing arias from grand opera. Perhaps because she was singing out of tune, she began to concentrate on the words. How silly they could sound in...
27 Wagons Full of Cotton reveals that for Tennessee Williams, life had dirty fingernails from the outset. Williams tells of a mussy, lolling, almost half-witted young girl married to a much older, hard-up cotton man who has set fire to a rival cotton gin. As he hoped, he...
While fishing (for the first time in his life) and trying to hook savage snook in the Florida Everglades, Vice President Richard Nixon leaned too far out of an outboard skiff while trying to make his plug let go of a mangrove root, back-somersaulted overboard. Absent from the scene...
It wasn't a bad upbringing that sweetened Happy's temper. Although his parents were immigrants from Central Africa, Happy himself was born in the exclusive Fairmount Park district of Philadelphia on July 7, 1918. He came to Boston on a wave of hippo enthusiasm led by the Post, which...